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riiOCEEDINaH OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. XXVIII. 



"Type. 



The type of P(/cn(mot//s hDjardi layai'dJ came from Kustenburg, 

 Transvaal," and examples from this reg-ion are like those from Cape 

 Colony. The range of Pycnonotux Idijord! nucrns extends from south- 

 eastern British P^ast Africa (Mombasa) south through German P^ast 

 Africa, and pro])al)ly to the Zambesi River, though no specimens are 

 at hand to determine the exact limits of its range in this direction. 



Ten specimens in all were obtained by Doctor Al)l)ott, at the follow- 

 ing localities: Kidudwe, 90 miles inland from Zanzibar; Taveta; and 

 Maranu, Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,000 feet, where the collector reports 

 it conmion. These examples are ver}" uniform in coloration, the chief 

 essential difference observable being in the extent of blackish on the 

 chin and sides of the head, a variation apparently not influenced by 

 sex, age, or season. Much worn birds are rather more rufescent; and 

 an immature, taken A})ril 13, 1888, differs similarly, particularly on 

 the cervix, rum[), and superior wing coverts, as well as additionally 

 in the much h'ss t)lackish })ileum. 



PHYLLASTREPHUS STREPITANS (Reichenow). 



CVm/V/fr .s^rqt>y7(fn.s Reic'iiexovv, { )riiith. Ct'iitralblatt, 1.S79, p. 189 (Malindi, British 

 East Africa). 



One specimen, without more detinite locality than " East Africa," 

 but probal)ly from the Kilimanjaro region. This example has been 

 identitied as PhijJhixtiwphux [xiuper by Dr. li. B. Sharpe, but it seems 

 to agree better with /*. ^trepitan^. If l*hyllastrephns paupet\^ by 



" Ayrcs, Il)is, 1870, p. MflO. 



'' l'JtyU()Ktr<ii)}iii>< pauper Sliarpe, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1895, p. 489 (Shebeli, west- 

 ern Somali Laml ). 



